Paging headline cop Brian Stelter: Is this tweet from CNN on vaping accurate enough for you?

Remember this summer when CNN’s Brian Stelter called out headline writers for writing accurate headlines that simply quoted the president as problematic? His argument then was the headline writers shouldn’t just take whatever Trump says at face value and repeat it as if it were fact:

My Q for headline writers: "Why does the president still get the benefit of the doubt when he, on a daily basis, exaggerates and straight-up lies to the public, to the press and about the press?" pic.twitter.com/hBBK9O8tJc

With that said, we’d like Brian to give us a ruling on this tweet from his own network:

Adam Hergenreder's vaping habit almost killed him.

Late last month, the 18-year-old student athlete was hospitalized after using e-cigarettes for more than a year and a half. Now his lungs are similar to those of a 70-year-old, doctors told him. https://t.co/ssxbNqhW23

This is important because it’s half-truth headlines like this from CNN that are causing the moral panic around all e-cigs. Here are the facts as we know them:

There is no definitive evidence vaping leads to smoking. FDA-regulated nicotine vaping is not linked to lung illness. The dangerous stuff are illicit, adulterated THC products. And banning regulated products only drives consumers into that black market. https://t.co/YP7e57cTff